The pattern

What the record says across several decisions.

The part

What it is

Systematic over-caution, over-enthusiasm, or a consistent blind spot in one category. All three are correctable and none is visible from a single case.

A dozen entries is enough for a pattern, which most organisations accumulate in a few years.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.